Word: humbler
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...Emory biologists set up radiation meters, counted trees, bushes and plants. They noted every change in the doomed forest and fields. Most conspicuous event was the quick death of the pines; but humbler plants died too, or their seeds failed to germinate. The only successful survivors were species of plants that can spring up from deep perennial roots. One annual weed, a kind of Arenaria, grew with unnatural vigor; its seeds apparently thrived on radiation...
...Herbert Read. As the list of celebrities grew to cocktail-party proportions, the Spectator observed wryly that "to spend a month in prison in the company of Reverend Michael Scott-and soon perhaps of Mr. John Osborne and Miss Shelagh Delaney-would make many of the campaign's humbler supporters feel they can die happy...
Cole does not think that space-voyaging models of macrolife could be built at present with any hope of success. Humbler models should come first-to give practice. One useful transitional form, he believes, might be an underground missile base that could be sealed off for years. Self-contained underwater bases would provide useful experience, too, especially if they could cruise around like giant nuclear submarines. Perhaps the most practical training unit would be an underground city stocked with enough people, supplies and equipment to survive a nuclear war and recolonize the earth's devastated surface after postwar radioactivity...
...Dick Neuberger fought a brave and desperate battle against cancer that changed their minds-and changed Dick Neuberger. He scoffed at the 1-20 odds his doctors gave him, underwent surgery and won the fight-along with the admiration and sympathy of his colleagues. His struggle left him a humbler, more mature humanitarian. Last week, when he died of a cerebral hemorrhage in a Portland hospital, Dick Neuberger, 47, left no legacy of distinguished legislation, but the U.S. Senate knew it had lost a distinguished member...
...same room where Errol Flynn was married to one of his three wives eight years ago. a mayor of Monte Carlo was last week about to perform another, humbler, wedding. Suddenly a liveried bailiff burst in, crying: "Monsieur Boisson! You're not mayor any more...